Last weekend Toy Break held its now annual “Day with Toy Break”, a 24 hour marathon show held to raise funds to help produce the weekly internet show. Artists from around the globe donated art and toys to help raise funds for this awesome show. One such artist was Jeremy Dale aka JerO aka ValleyDweller, who created a set of 10 awesome October Ch’Orb resin figures during the marathon and offered to donate half of the sale price of each figure that sold during the marathon to Toy Break.
Jeremy created the original October Ch’Orb as a gift to October Toys, but after figure was featured on Toy Break he received so many requests to purchase one he decided to make an entire set. The Blot was lucky enough to pick up the October Ch’Orb you see above during a Day with Toy Break, and I love it! There are still a few left, and Jeremy is currently selling them blind bagged via his online store for $20 each. What’s even better is that as of right now half of the sale price is still being donated to Toy Break, so you can get an awesome hand painted resin figure and donate to a good cause all at the same time!
As a diehard LOST fan, The Blot has been ready to start watching Alcatraz ever since it got the green light from FOX last year. Produced by J.J. Abrams, directed by Jack Bender and starring Jorge Garcia, everything about this show says “Must See TV” to me. As FOX explains, Alcatraz is a “thrilling new series that follows a unique trio investigating the mystifying reappearance of 302 of Alcatraz’s most notorious prisoners and guards 50 years after they vanished.” Admit it, that one sentence synopsis sounds pretty good doesn’t it? Some thought ABC’s Once Upon A Time would be LOST’s heir apparent, but to me Alcatraz has always held that title. I just can’t figure out why FOX kept this awesome television show on hold until mid-season!
Catch the 2 hour series premiere of Alcatraz tonight, Monday, January 16th, at 8/7c on FOX! Alcatraz stars Sarah Jones as Det. Rebecca Madsen, Jorge Garcia as Dr. Diego Soto, Sam Neill as Emerson Hauser, Parminder Nagra (of ER!) as Lucy Banerjee; Robert Forster as Ray Archer, Santiago Cabrera as Jimmy Dickens, Jonny Coyne as Warden Edwin James and Jason Butler Harner as Deputy Warden E.B. Tiller. You can also listen to the new Diego’s Soule Patch: An Alcatraz Podcast by Jorge Garcia and Bethany Shady on iTunes (I know I will be)!
Alcatraz Official Synopsis: When San Francisco Police Department Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a seemingly impossible suspect: Jack Sylvane (guest star Jeffrey Pierce), an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Robert Forster), were guards at the prison – Madsen’s interest is immediately piqued. When the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she becomes doggedly committed to it.
Madsen finds herself working with an unlikely partner, Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast Dr. Diego “Doc” Soto (Jorge Garcia), to help piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The two discover that Sylvane is not only alive, but he’s loose on the streets of San Francisco, exacting decades-old revenge and leaving bodies in his wake. And strangely, he hasn’t aged a day since 1963, when Alcatraz was ruled by the iron-fisted Warden Edwin James (Jonny Coyne) and the sadistic Associate Warden E.B. Tiller (Jason Butler Harner).
Detective Madsen and Soto must team with Hauser and his associate, Lucy Banerjee (Parminder Nagra), to stop Sylvane’s vengeful killing spree. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Rebecca’s own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. Because even though he may be the first, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane won’t be the last to reappear from Alcatraz.
This week marks the release of ESC Toy’s first all new figure of 2012: the Little Spiker! The Blot’s really digging this new figure by Erick Scarecrow, from her cute blue hoodie to her deadly spiked club. Available now for pre-order from the ESC Toy online store for $150 each, the Little Spiker O.G. is the second figure in Erick’s Little Axe series. This “Original” colorway is limited to only 20 pieces, and each 6" hand painted resin figure comes with a 3" spiked bat accessory that is signed and numbered by artist.
Little Spiker’s Official Story: When news reaches Sama Village about the disappearance of her friend, Little Spiker spends everything she has for some weapons to go and search for Little Axe. Upon leaving her home, she visits a Wood Hermit's shop and purchases a custom made wolf's paw and a spike bat. The wolf's paw is magical because it acts like a compass pulling her toward the direction of her missing friend. While her spike bat, although chunky in size, has a unique scent similar to a massive piece of candy. This aroma constantly lures all sorts of creatures good and bad…especially Stone Turtum Miccis.
After returning from his amazing trip to the Thai/Burma border with J★RYU and Ritzy Periwinkle as part of the Little Lotus Project 2011 (where the artists worked with refugee and migrant children who have fled from the instability of Burma), Angry Woebots must have been itching to get back into the studio. How else can you explain these awesome new monochromatic custom vinyl figures he whipped up over the weekend! Just check out these beautiful Veil: Specimen 129 ($450), Gloomy Bear ($700) and Reach Bear ($220) vinyl figures customized by Woe as black, grey and white pandas. Rad is really the only way to describe them! All three figures are currently for sale at Angry Woebots' online store.
